We Do Business In Full Auto [EN]: Chapter 91

91. Internship (1)

Formal training began the next day.

Actually, it wasn’t much of a training.

Whether it was a part-timer or a full employee, they were learning the basics of the job and how to respond to customers.

The mages understood immediately, but the ordinary undead were struggling to keep up.

Lynn gave the instructions, and Cecil oversaw the training of the 700 interns.

“Welcome!”

“Welcome!”

“Thank you! Goodbye!”

“Thank you! Goodbye!”

“Pay attention to the pronunciation.”

“Yes!”

In reality, there weren’t many complex conversations while working at a convenience store.

You just had to greet customers cheerfully as they came in and handle the transactions efficiently. These days, cash payments were less common, but they still learned how to count money, use the cash register, receive and stock items, and reconcile accounts.

In short, they were learning the entire operation.

The undead’s fumbling was improving with practice. Best of all, their mistakes didn’t raise suspicion. It just looked like they were training foreigners who weren’t fluent in Korean.

It’s naturally accepted that foreigners have pronunciation issues, especially since Korean is quite difficult for non-native speakers.

“This is how you use the POS [Point of Sale] machine. If you scan the barcode, the total will automatically appear. Be sure to ask if they need a receipt. The same goes for bags; you have to tell the customer that the bag costs 40 won [approximately 3 US cents].”

“Yes!”

The undead answered mechanically.

“And smile!”

Smirk!

“Hmm.”

The ordinary undead couldn’t smile properly.

Is this the limit of the 5th Circle [a level of magical ability]?

If I reached the 6th Circle, I could summon undead that were completely indistinguishable from humans, but I hadn’t reached that level yet.

It was said that many people couldn’t break through the wall of the 5th Circle even with a lifetime of effort, so this wasn’t a problem that could be solved by being impatient.

Ding-dong!

The bell rang.

It was the bell announcing lunchtime, and the trainees rushed out of the training center.

In the process, male employees flirted with the undead.

“Ellie, would you like to have dinner with me sometime?”

“Yes! Thank you!”

“Oh, really?”

“Goodbye!”

“…….”

“No, that’s not what I meant.”

“I am from Serbia.”

“Ah, okay.”

The basics of romance are communication.

I had already assigned them countries with this in mind—unfamiliar languages other than English, Chinese, or Japanese.

Languages that Koreans would never know unless they majored in them.

To flirt, you had to master the language of the country. These days, new employees entering mid-sized companies were fluent in English as a basic requirement, but three languages were difficult. Large companies often looked for up to three languages, but CL Retail wasn’t at that level.

Lynn said with a sly smile.

“They’re fools.”

“Who?”

“Not even knowing who they’re flirting with.”

“People tend to believe that what they think is the truth. When they see them, they see beautiful women. They assume it’s because they’re foreigners. Even if they’re clumsy, it’s all passable because they’re foreigners.”

“How did you think of all this?”

“Isn’t it the product of my cunning?”

I shrugged at Lynn.

As the afternoon training began, a woman in a black suit arrived.

Very intelligent but with a cold demeanor, it was Chief Secretary Lee Seul-gi.

“President, I brought today’s approval documents.”

“Oh, thank you.”

I was planning to observe the employees’ training for a day or two. That’s why I slept at the training center yesterday as well.

I couldn’t go to work, so Lee Seul-gi brought the documents.

Documents containing various policy decisions.

“How are the store owners reacting?”

“Of course, they’re resisting.”

“That can’t be helped. You explained it, right? That it’s because the company’s management needs to be normalized.”

“Yes. Even if they resist, they can’t terminate the franchise because of the penalty. Even if the monthly fee or margin rate has been adjusted, it’s still more generous compared to other companies in the industry.”

“Then that’s good.”

“We’ve received intelligence that some may hold protests.”

“Protests?”

“They’re protesting against the sudden change in policies.”

A protest in this kind of atmosphere.

“Let them.”

“Are you okay with that?”

“If they try to pressure me with media play, I can do media play too.”

“Yes. Then I won’t worry about that part.”

“More than that, did you eat?”

“No. I was driving…….”

“Let’s go eat.”

“Didn’t you eat earlier?”

“Not yet.”

I just took the bus and went on an outing, so I didn’t eat either.

Lynn slyly chimed in.

“I’m starving. Shall we go get some *gukbap* [Korean rice soup]?”

Lynn said with a grin.

Lynn looked like a foreigner at first glance, but her taste was as Korean as anyone.

I took Lynn and Lee Seul-gi to a nearby *gukbap* restaurant.

It was a fairly famous beef head *gukbap* restaurant in Ilsan, and they all ordered cartilage soup.

“Three cartilage soups, please.”

“President, why don’t you order some *suyuk* [boiled sliced meat] too?”

Lynn said regretfully.

Since I wasn’t paying anyway, I ordered as much as I wanted.

“Add a large order of cartilage *suyuk*!”

“Yes!”

Soon, side dishes began to come out.

When the soup came out, they added various seasonings and finished a bowl in no time.

I don’t know how women can eat *gukbap* so well. They each added a bowl of rice and scraped the soup and meat clean.

I had Lynn get coffee from the vending machine and roughly heard news about the company from her.

“How’s the atmosphere at the company?”

“There’s some concern.”

“What kind of concern?”

“It’s because we’re increasing the number of directly managed convenience stores and the store owners are resisting. But they agree that it’s necessary. However, they’re wondering if it will be difficult to operate the directly managed convenience stores… They’re also expecting something since 700 people have entered the training center.”

That’s what I expected.

They probably don’t know what I’m doing yet.

It was rare for beautiful women to work at convenience stores. And they were all foreigners. Of Northern European descent.

Since I brought in the Western beauties that Koreans like, sales will definitely increase. I could fully expect that.

“And they’re also worried that the trainees might leave in the middle.”

“They’re refugees, so they have nowhere to go, so they won’t run away.”

“To only pick such beautiful women…….”

“We just need to make sure that the information that they’re from refugee backgrounds doesn’t leak out.”

“We’re controlling the information somehow.”

“Then that’s good.”

I was about to leave the *gukbap* restaurant and enter the training center when I got a call from Sujeong.

I wonder what’s going on with Sujeong, who’s starting school tomorrow. She must be busy preparing to go to school right now.

“Oh, Sujeong.”

-Dad! I found a way to make dolls!

“Dolls as in?”

-Androids.

“Is that true?”

-Not high-end, but manpower suitable for manual labor?

“Even that’s good enough.”

Even now, unmanned island development and various places needed to be staffed with undead. There weren’t enough of them, but if I could produce undead with the secret arts of black magic, nothing could be better.

-I told Mom that I was going shopping with Dad for a bag!

“Really?”

-Sujeong will go to the harbor!

She’s coming by taxi.

Then I should leave this place to Lynn and go to the island.

I hang up the phone and look at Lynn.

Can I trust Lynn, who’s quite slippery, to take responsibility?

“Lynn.”

“What?”

“Can you take responsibility for the training?”

“Is there anything special about training? Just do it.”

“Haa.”

It seems better to trust Cecil than Lynn.

“Stop acting like that.”

“What did I do?”

“If you act rebellious, I have no choice but to train you.”

She trembled at my words.

Lynn had her own training method(?). In short, she had tremendous torture skills.

If such torture were inflicted on her, she would naturally tremble.

From Ilsan to Yeongjongdo.

It’s a day of running around.

To do experiments, going to a deserted island is the best.

Sujeong was waiting for me at the harbor.

“Dad!”

Sujeong ran and hugged me.

People around me envied Sujeong, who was showering my face with kisses.

Perhaps they thought that a daughter who missed her father had come directly to his workplace, but people’s expectations were wrong.

Sujeong whispered.

“I want to make a dummy quickly.”

“Okay. What’s the method?”

“I brought it.”

She copied and brought the annotated edition.

The method was described in detail.

[A dummy refers to a method of controlling the undead without one’s own magic power. It was mainly used at the forefront of arrow fodder or suicide attacks.

The level of the dummy is very simple, but if trained, it can listen to a few commands. If you insert an evil spirit here, you can use more complex commands. However, control is not easy.

To create a dummy, you need at least a 5th Circle early black magician, and you also need to create a black magic stone.]

“Black magic stone, huh.”

“It’s said that you can create it by drawing a magic circle and activating it.”

“There’s such a thing?”

“The condition for activation is basic 5th Circle, so I haven’t been looking at it until now, but Dad has risen to 5th Circle! So now I can make it.”

“This could be……?”

“Yeah. We can make people believe they’re androids.”

“Oho.”

It was a very unconventional magic.

It doesn’t use magic power directly, but uses the magic power of the black magic stone. There was the burden of having to charge it, but that much can be faked.

Even if you make androids with science, you need to charge them. You can trick them by replacing the battery.

Chwaa! Chwaa!

We board the ship and head to Beomdo.

Sujeong, as well as myself, were full of expectations.

“If we can complete it…….”

Sujeong’s eyes also sparkled.

“Dad will be able to run the fully automated convenience store that he wants so much.”

Fully automated convenience store!

That was the reason why I acquired CL Retail.